Matt is a Senior Product Manager at YouTube and the author of the children’s book series Tech for Babies.
Matt is the product lead for growth for YouTube’s over-the-top services which represent the majority of Google’s overall subscription revenue. In 2025 alone Matt netted $XXXM in Operating income wins. Prior to YouTube, Matt was in Google Ads where he was the Lead for the world’s larges video ad server (Ad Manager Video). In his role Matt helped everyone from emerging media players to the largest media companies in the world adapt to the shift to connected TV. Matt also ran Google O&O (YouTube, YouTubeTV, GoogleTV, etc) content partnerships and monetization where Matt launched a new $XXM business from 0 to 1, negotiated carriage agreements worth $XXB, and owned an $XB business while working with regulators on evolving privacy principals for digital video.
Prior to Google, Matt ran startup partnerships for Verizon for consumer 5G and Media products. While at Verizon, Matt founded and organized the NFL and NBA innovation funds and launched the first consumer 5G cloud gaming system. Before Verizon Matt worked as a Venture Associate at Trucks.vc and Techstars, launched Personalization for AmazonFresh as a Technical Product Manager, and was an engineer then created the Product function at Laserfiche.
Matt got his degree in Math and Computer Science from UCLA and was a Ross Scholar at the University of Michigan. While at UCLA, Matt got his first taste of the startup world as one of the first 10 employees at Factual and also wrote his first screenplay.
Matt is married to Liz Wessel. They love traveling with their cavapoo Trooper, hosting dinner parties, and learning tennis. When not working, Matt still loves to write (comedy or not), classic movies, UCLA, Michigan and the Dodgers, and investing in / advising startups